benefit of roots posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006
The March 4 edition of The Straits Times provides some insight into the relationship. In the article, 'Now 'married' and a believer in self-renewal', veteran MP Tan Cheng Bock said he had 'groomed a few grassroots leaders and hoped some of them might make potential MPs'.
In the article, 'Hands-on MP' points to changes in Bt Panjang', it was stated that 'many (grassroots leaders) were excited at... the prospect of taking on the opposition at the coming general election'.
Plainly, the connection alluded to by the Workers' Party is not as tenuous and unreal as some might want us to believe.
Tham Li Jing, ST forum, March 7 2006
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Grassroots leaders reacted strongly to the Workers' Party's recent charge that grassroots organisations are nothing more than appendages of the ruling People's Action Party. They stated emphatically that their organisations are fundamentally independent of any political party
The March 4 edition of The Straits Times provides some insight into the relationship. In the article, 'Now 'married' and a believer in self-renewal', veteran MP Tan Cheng Bock said he had 'groomed a few grassroots leaders and hoped some of them might make potential MPs'.
In the article, 'Hands-on MP' points to changes in Bt Panjang', it was stated that 'many (grassroots leaders) were excited at... the prospect of taking on the opposition at the coming general election'.
Plainly, the connection alluded to by the Workers' Party is not as tenuous and unreal as some might want us to believe.
Tham Li Jing, ST forum, March 7 2006
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